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http://pravetz.bg/history says that IMKO-1 was based on 8080 CPU and not Apple $$

Thursday 6th February 2014

Marin Aleksandrov

Does anyone know how many of the Pravetz 8 series were produced in total? Thanks.

Thursday 17th October 2013

Ivan Toshkov (Bulgaria)

Note, that the normal monthly salary back then was about 200lv. So 4190lv is quite high price and not many people had them in their homes. That said, these computers (and later models) became quite common in factories and schools and there were freely available computer courses in many places.

This computer is historic for two reasons - First, it introduced the $phonetic$ layout of the Bulgarian keyboars (as opposed to BDS, which is the standard typewriter layout). Second, it was hacked (upgraded) to work with cyrillic characters, replacing the small latin letters and creating a new Cyrillic codepage.